starts with a "j" and ends with "ustified"

we played in the garden, in the sunshine and the rain
we were little kids, we barely knew our names
content at just how discontent we were
but when the spring came, it changed everything we knew
i looked up at your trees, "you bear the strangest fruit..."

well it's my turn now, i never wanted to end up like you
but it's my turn now, we're all killers just like you

we plucked from the trees and even ate the seeds
we said, "oh my, oh yes, everything we thought we knew
just got up and left."
we never knew what we had started,
"can you bear what you have started?"

well it's my turn now, i never wanted to end up like you
but it's my turn now, we're all killers just like you
we're all dying just like you

we're all killers just like you
we're all dying just like you
we're starting fires just like you
we're just as lost as you

we're all killers just like you
(you bear the strangest fruit)
we're all dying just like you
(you bear the strangest fruit)
we're starting fires just like you
(you bear the strangest fruit)
we're just as lost as you
(you bear the strangest fruit)

the verdict falls like bachelors for bad luck girls

i wanted to write you something poetic about your eyes and a sunrise
or your porcelain skin and our weekend long stints
i've ust got a bit of writer's block baby, that's all i'm sure
and when it's done, you'll have the prettiest song, the most potent cure

for all your long days and your sleepless nights
and the way your roomate leaves on the lights
i've just got a bit of writer's block baby, that's all i'm sure
and when it's done, you'll have the prettiest song, the most potent cure

i'll smile at the pictures on my wall
and pretend you're doing the same
hum the songs we used to talk through
and hope you remember their names

play the theif and steal all your favorite lines from record sleeves
to make you smile and forget when you need to leave
i've just got this bit of writer's block baby, that's all i'm sure
and when it's done, you'll have the prettiest song, the most potent cure

petty vandalism is it's own reward

can i just crack a window? can i just vent this room?
the same way i'd like to tear some vents in you?
let out all the poison, let out all the memories
start again brand new the way we're supposed to be?
the way we thought we're supposed to be

well at least i hope you're happy, and every other cliche
because i'm sick of all my songs being about you
well at least i hope you're happy,but i'm sick of these cliches
and i'm sick of all my songs being about you

can i just break this wall down? can i just break the ice?
there's a million things i'd lask to ask you tonight
"how does it feel to be so high your feet can't reach the ground?
how does it feel to be so low your ears can't feel the sound?
to be so cliche your thoughts just spin around?"

well at least i hope you're happy, and every other cliche
because i'm sick of all my songs being about you
well at least i hope you're happy,but i'm sick of these cliches
and i'm sick of all my songs being about you

(spin) come tumbling down
(spin) come crashing down
(spin) come around
(spin) the way i sound
(spin) i'm coming down
(spin) i'm calming down
(spin) i'm sinking now
(spin) til i hit the
(spin) i'm sinking now
(spin) til i hit the
(spin)(spin)(spin)(spin)

don't trip potato chip

well hey there platinum bombshell
come teach me what your war is all about
love, oh, and passion, oh
and all the things the mindless masses tout
well do you believe in fate?
i say we rewrite the pages
and do you believe in fate?
i say we rewrite the pages

well you said you're a hard pill to swallow, i said
you just weren't given the right person and
the only way i'll take you is on the rocks
the only way i'll take you is...

hey there bright eyed lightning bolt,
come teach me bout that spark in your eye
when i strum these chords and play you these lullabies
well do you believe in fate?
i say we rewrite the pages
and do you believe in fate?
i say we write our own pages

well you said you're a hard pill to swallow, i said
you just weren't given the right person and
the only way i'll take you is on the rocks
the only way i'll take you is...

and don't dilute the passion, or the poison
don't dilute your poison, don't lose your passion
i don't know what you said, but you get the best
and i don't know what you said, but you always get the best of...

you're like this drug i just can't get enough of
so roll me into your cigarette
smoke me care and don't let me get, oh, get, get ready and
on your mark, get ready, set go...

definitely maybe, maybe maybe
we'll live in your bed, your town your city
definitely maybe maybe maybe you'll fall in love
and i learned all about broken hearts before, love
just to break me, break me, break me
you'd have to build me, build me back up

oh, oh, oh

well you said you're a hard pill to swallow, i said
you just weren't given the right person and
the only way i'll take you is on the rocks
theonly way i'll take you is...

why me?

if i drove my car through a brick wall
that might teach you what it's like to fall
if i sliced myself open so could see my heart
that would teach you what it's like to fall apart

it's my fist against the whiskey
and that should teach you to keep it
it's my will and fucking sleepers
and that will teach you to keep this

if I broke my fingers on this guitar
that would teach you to wish on all your God damned stars
and if I broke my bones against the bar
that would teach you to leave me with your mark

it's my fist against the whiskey
and that should teach you to keep it
it's my will and fucking sleepers
and that will teach you to keep this

and you can lay on your back
let the mattress break your fall
and i'll just have a little heart attack
it's nothing much at all

if I knew you wouldn't shed a tear
i'd do this all tonight
but even though you stoke my fear
i'll still think of you tonight

would you be embarrassed if I (blanked) you?

wear that smile on your face like you're an angel
in disguise and out of mind, oh you're no angel
mail me pictures of how happy we could be,
i'll tear them apart and mail them back
and show you just how heartless i can be

it's cute how you're so fake
and it's cute how you're oh so tasteless
well we won't get anywhere
with these stories that you make
to take me home, take me home

wear that frown on your face like you're so sad
useless and out of sight and you're so bad
write me stories of how happy we could be
i'll correct the grammer and show you just how clever i can be

it's cute how you're so fake
and it's cute how you're oh so tasteless
well we won't get anywhere
with these stories that you make
to take me home, take me home

i'll rip you apart at the seams and shower you in everyone else's dreams
tack your sins up on the wall and watch you fall, oh, fall
was he that bad? did you wonder where i was?
did you make him so glad? when you wondered how i was?

well you're so delicate, i became a machine
you're so full of it, i became a machine
you're so powerless, i cbecame a machine
you're so full of shit, i am, i am a machine

it's cute how you're so fake
and it's cute how you're oh so tasteless
well we won't get anywhere
with these stories that you make
to take me home, i can't stand to hear you anymore

Ghosts

these songs are just shells of what they used to be
written with heart and played until they fall apart...

these songs are just shells of what they used to be
written with heart and played until they fall apart
I've lost every bolt that ever held you to me
and every srew that meant something to me

i'm falling apart with all the best intentions
all my words are disentigrating
cut to the bone with all your grave decisions
and the way your hips keep swinging

well every word I ever wrote down
is running off with all your tear drops and your loss of life
no I never wrote you a song
without your fall planned out ahead of time
so take this ink with you
put it in your skin and in your hair
and take this kink with you
out of the small of my back and all my cares

i'm falling apart with all the best intentions
all my words are disentigrating
cut to the bone with all your grave decisions
and the way your hips keep swinging

will you ever know i wrote all these letters for you?
under this starlight and the city streets?
i wrote all these letters for you
gave up sleepless nights and city streets
I'm writing all these letters for you
for the ghost of this machine
we built when you stayed up late with me

these songs are just shells of what they used to be
written for the ghosts, the ghosts of you and me

it's not the lipstick that's poison, this time

how does everyone keep breathing when true love ends?
because it does, and it always does and it does
keep going through the motions, holding on to the crutches
someone's bound to come along and change all that, right?

you'll just stumble through life and take shallow breaths
eyes glazed over from the cold and alone of your bed
drink to take care of all those emotions that try to hold steady
stay empty inside, the way she left you so broken you wept

said I don't care that I don't care anymore,
it's just something we do to pass the time away
instead of thinking of all the things she used to say
and I don't care that I don't care anymore,
she never meant a thing to me anyway
alright, she did, but she threw that all away

my bones are aching as I'm thinking of you some more
so go ahead, pour me some more
because this poison will kill you faster than me
my head is pounding as I'm thinking of you some more
so go ahead, pour me another,
because this poison will kill you faster than me

you'll just stumble through life and take shallow breaths
eyes glazed over from the cold and alone of your bed
drink to take care of all those emotions that try to hold steady
stay empty inside, the way she left you so broken you wept

wrapped up in you

you look like a lush, you talk like a tease
you have me wrapped around your fingers
talk with a hush, i'm looking to please.
you got me wrapped around your fingers
the only place i want to be

I told you everything, all my deepest and darkest
and every single street
how you're my queen, how you're my everything....

how i miss the way we collide
the way we hit, and your hair wrapped around my finger tips
and the way the planets explode every time we kiss
and i love the way the stars glow every time we embrace

so stay awake, dreams only last one night,
and what we have should last a lifetime
stay awake, dreams only last one night
and what we have should last a lifetime

how i miss the way we would fight
the way we hit, and your hair wrapped around my finger tips
and the way the planets explode every time we kiss
and the way the stars glow every time we embrace

you look like a lush, you talk like a tease
you have me wrapped around your fingers
talk with a hush, i'm looking to please.
you got me wrapped around your fingers
the only place i want to be

We lived inside eachother

it's in the quiet when I realize it,
all my thoughts creep back to you
it's in the quiet when I realize it,
everything creeps back to you
your name, oh, your picture in my mind
they used to force a smile on my lips
now it only makes me think of things I miss

where are you now? Where are you now?
I'm done waiting by the phone
I'm doen with things we used to know
Where are you now? Where are you now?
don't pick up the phone, it's full of things we used to know

it's a long drive home
and we all have a place to call our own
it's a long drive, oh, a long drive home
remember when we used to call eachother our home?
and it's a long drive home
and you're cute when you fall asleep
and the way you you're sinking like a stone
the way you dream of things we used to know

it's in the quiet when i realize it,
we used to call eachother home
you never used to care about it
done with what we used to know
you're a mastermind with plans for this
we used to call eachother home
I'm terrible company when i think of it

where are you now? Where are you now?
I'm done waiting by the phone
I'm doen with things we used to know
Where are you now? Where are you now?
don't pick up the phone, I won't answer it anymore